Will Vermont join California in requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns?

How about it?

California is the first state to adopt this rule, setting the requirement at five years of back taxes; but Illinois and New Jersey already have the matter under consideration.

Shouldn’t the most progressive state in the Union also be the most transparent?

Norms no longer seem to be sufficient.   With Trump’s cautionary tail sitting in the Oval Office, its time to codify some protections for our democracy before it’s too late.  We have to do what we can on a state level because Congress has been effectively neutered.

That is all I’ve got to say.  Thank you.

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

4 thoughts on “Will Vermont join California in requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns?

  1. Good idea!
    My guess is it might pass in the Dem/Prog majority VT legislature but Governor Scott would demand the bill include a roadside saliva test provision before signing it.

    1. Then there’s the issue that, given the legislature won’t even ask its own members to reveal tax info in order to discern potential conflicts of interest (its Ethics Commission is toothless — no enforcement — and severely restricted in scope), why would it require presidential candidates to do more?

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